The Case Of The Notorious Nun (1986)

A young priest (Timothy Bottoms) brought in by an archbishop (William Prince) to look for signs of embezzlement in the archdiocese is found stabbed in his hotel room. A young nun (Michele Greene) is accused of the murder. The archbishop asks his old friend Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to defend her. Directed by Ron Satlof (PERRY MASON RETURNS). The second of the thirty Perry Mason movies made in the 1980s long after the television series ended in 1966. It's a decent murder mystery hampered by the unsympathetic nun suspect being exceedingly irritating, a fact that is acknowledged in the telefilm. The movie seems somewhat padded out. The original PERRY MASON episodes were an hour in length and by expanding it to 90 minutes, some of the scenes seem superfluous. With Arthur Hill, Barbara Parkins, Tom Bosley, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Jon Cypher and Gerald S. O'Laughlin.